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A Day At The Racetrack
‘the 3 nag pushed into the photofinish’
Barry Brown liked to study the form cards while drinking hot chocolate sat outside the family farmhouse. He’d done this since a kid of 9 or 10 and today he was finally going to the local track, would cycle the 2 miles to Adlington Spur racecourse for the Wednesday meeting over jumps.
He sat on the porch overlooking the hollow where this year’s spruces and firs stood stacked ready for sale, last night’s snow decorating them with a dusting of ice.
He scanned the 12.15 at Adlington Spur and the 3 nag, a horse named Never The Same.
He bet Never The Same before - at Exeter, last year, where it didn’t finish. The Poynton Post tipster was called Big Value and, of Never The Same, she wrote: ‘A potential finisher who placed 4th at Kempton but pulled up short at York over the same 3 mile trip in January. Big Value’s tip: a value each way punt.’
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